Activist Bemoans Rots In DESOPADEC, Calls For Its Restructure
LAGOS MAY 1TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A frontline Niger Delta activist, human right crusader and community leader, Comrade Mulade Sheriff has bemoaned the sorry state of Delta State Oil Producing Area Development Commission, More...
Okowa Names Takeme, Fregene As Commissioners, Pirah, Talib, Odebala For DESOPADEC
Okowa LAGOS OCTOBER 17TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The State Governor, Senator Ifeanyi has nominated Mr Julius Takeme and Mr Freeman Orits Fregene for appointment as Commissioners and members of the State Executive Council. The More...
‘Deve’: Okowa Signs Bill Prohibiting Extortion On Land
Senator Ifeanyi Okowa LAGOS AUGUST 24TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Delta State Governor, Senator Dr Ifeanyi Okowa yesterday [24-08-18] assented to a bill to outlaw illegal and forceful entry into development sites in the state More...
Taiga Visits Okowa, Decries Short-Changing Of Urhobos In DESOPADEC (PHOTOS)
Senator (Dr.) Ifeanyi Okowa, Governor of Delta State; welcoming Olorogun (Dr.) Moses Oghenerume Taiga, JP, President-General of Urhobo Progress Union (UPU), Worldwide to Government House, Asaba when the National More...
Protesting Workers Finally Shut Down DESOPADEC, Management Meetings Relocated To Lagos (PHOTO)
LAGOS JANUARY 12TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The unabated protest organized by junior staff of Delta State Oil Producing Area Commission (DESOPADEC) has finally led to the temporary suspension of activities in the Agency. The More...
Police Fires Colleague In Attempt To Disperse Protesting DESOPADEC Staff
Protesting DESOPADEC workers besieged headquarters of the Commission at Warri…. LAGOS JANUARY 10TH (URHOBOTODAY)-An overzealous mobile police officer on Tuesday mistakenly shot his colleague on the leg in More...
Protesting Isoko Youths Block Ughelli/Asaba Expressway, Demand Removal Of DESOPADEC Commissioner
LAGOS DECEMBER 14TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Thousands of travelers were on Monday, December 11 stranded as aggrieved Isoko youths at about 7am blocked the ever-busy Ughelli/Asaba Expressway with a call for the immediate More...
DESOPADEC Abandons Six Classrooms Blocks In Oginibo Secondary School
The sign board of the DESOPADEC cobtactor looking rusty and over grown with weed at the site of the abadoned six block xlassroom project LAGOS AUGUST 28TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development More...
Pat Utomi: My Concept Is To Create Three Brown New Industrial Cities In Delta State
Professor Pat Utomi in group icture with members of Urhobo Social Club, Lagos LAGOS AUGUST 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Renowned economist and scholar, Professor Patrick Okedinachi Utomi, largely known simply as Pat Utomi More...
DESOPADEC Is Dead In Udu Community- Sam Odibo
Chief Sam Odibo By Justice Iyasere LAGOS JULY (9TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Otota of Udu Kingdom, Chief Sam Odibo has declared that as far as Udu LGA was concerned, the Delta State Oil Producing Area Development Commission, More...
How Okowa Cripples DESOPADEC
Delta State Governor, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa By Our Reporter LAGOS MAY 9TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Despite the enabling law establishing the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission [DESOPADEC] to receive and administer More...
DESOPADEC Director, Ochor Hails James Ibori, Amori, Others
Ibori and Amori LAGOS MARCH 29TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The former governor of Delta State, Chief James Onanefe Ibori, had been described as a man of the people, and a leader to emulate. This was the opinion of Hon Ochor More...
Delta APC Tasks Okowa on Alleged $10m Scam, CallS for Intervention of EFCC
Dr Iifeanyi Okowa LAGOS JANUARY 31ST (URHOBOTODAY)-The All Progressives Congress (APC), Delta State chapter has tasked Delta Governor, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa to come out in the open to clear his name on the alleged More...
DESOPADEC Staff Go Naked in Protest of Non-Payment of End of Year Bonuses
LAGOS JANUARY 10TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Some workers of the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC) stripped naked on Monday, January 9, to protest the non-payment of their bonuses by the commission. The More...
Problems of Askia Ogieh Deepens as Delta Assembly Set to Probe DESOPADEC Financial Records
LAGOS OCTOBER 26TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The problems of demoted Director of Administration and Finance of Delta State Oil Producing Area Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Cief Askia Ogieh deepens as members of Delta More...
Okowa Shuts Out Makinde, Replaces DESOPADEC Finance Commissioner with Kinsman
LAGOS OCTOBER 24TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Report reaching Urhobotoday has revealed that Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa has fired the Executive Director of Finance and Administration (EDFA) of the Delta State Oil More...
Delta: Okowa, Igbuya, Makinde, Others Indicted in Alleged Budget Padding Scandal
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 30TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Delta State Governor, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa, Speaker, Delta State House of Assembly, Hon Monday Igbuya and Managing Director of Delta State Oil Producing Area Development Commission More...
South-South Political Parties Leader, Idawene Accuses Okowa of Fraudulent Activities
Delta State Governor, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa LAGOS SEPTEMBER 15TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Chairman of the forum of registered political parties in the South -South region of Nigeria and Chairman of Delta State Social Democratic More...
Ex- DESOPADEC Commissioner Hails Leaders’ Decision to Back Clark in Resolving N’Delta Crisis
Sir Keny Okolugbo LAGOS AUGUST 30TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A public affairs analyst and former Commissioner with the Delta State Oil Producing Communities Development Commission, DESOPADEC, Ken Okolugbo, has praised the More...
Oil Producing Communities Raise Alarm, Says Okowa is Killing DESOPADEC
Delta State Governor, Ddr Ifeanyi Okowa LAGOS AUGUST 15TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Oil producing communities in Delta State on Sunday raised an alarm that the state Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, is working underground to ground More...
Itsekiri Leader, Okotie-Eboh Calls for the Scrapping of NDDC, N’Delta Ministry, DESOPADEC
Emmanuel Okotie-Eboh LAGOS JULY 11TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A prominent Itsekiri leader and farmer in Delta State, Mr. Emmanuel Okotie- Eboh, has called for the scrapping of the Niger Delta Development Commission, the Ministry More...
N2bn Fraud: DESOPADEC MD, Finance Director, Others In EFCC Net
DESOPADEC Managng Director, Makinwa LAGOS JULY 6TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Following a series of petitions against the management of the Delta State Oil Producing Development Commission (DESOPADEC) over corruption and alleged More...
DESOPADEC Cancels ‘Free Money’ For The Physically Challenged in Delta
LAGOS JUNE 19TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Due to the present harsh economic condition in the country, the management of the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, (DESOPADEC), yesterday said there is no provision More...
DESOPADEC Budget: Itsekiri Leaders Query Award of N400m Two-Kilometer Road Project in Koko
DESOPADEC Chairman, Makinde LAGOS MAY 16TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Itsekiri leaders under the aegis of Itsekiri Leaders of Thought (ILoT), has kicked against the allocation of N400 million for a two-kilometer road at Koko More...
DESOPADEC: Delta Oil Communities Storm House of Assembly, Protest Allege N16bn Fraud
LAGOS APRIL 27TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Host communities yesterday, besieged Delta State House of Assembly complex, Asaba to protest against Delta State Oil Producing Area Development Commission (DESOPADEC) 2016 fiscal More...